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Researcher
Johan Billen
- Disciplines:Animal biology, Ecology, Aquatic sciences, challenges and pollution, Environmental science and management, Fisheries sciences, Evolutionary biology, Genetics, Microbiology, Plant biology, Soil sciences, challenges and pollution
Affiliations
- Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity Conservation (Division)
Member
From1 Oct 1999 → Today
Projects
1 - 4 of 4
- Strumigenys ants: tiny gems in the study of exocrine gland diversityFrom16 Sep 2019 → 19 Jun 2023Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Exocrine glands of Neotropical wasps and bees: new perspectives for systematics and sociobiological studies.From1 Oct 2012 → 30 Sep 2015Funding: BOF - Concerted Research Project from 1994
- Confocal and multiphoton laser scanning microscope LSM 710, configuration 2 NLO.From22 Jul 2010 → 21 Jan 2017Funding: Hercules - Small and Medium size research infrastructure
- The origin and maintenance of complex social behaviour in insects.From1 Jan 2008 → 31 Dec 2011Funding: FWO research project (including WEAVE projects)
Publications
1 - 10 of 149
- Morphology and ultrastructure of the colleterial glands in Myzinum flower wasps (Tiphiidae, Hymenoptera)(2024)
Authors: Johan Billen
- Morphology and ultrastructure of the mandibular gland in Camponotus japonicus(2023)
Authors: Johan Billen
- Morphology of the metapleural gland and its associated novel atrial cone gland in Strumigenys ants(2023)
Authors: Chu Wang, Johan Billen
- Evidence of a thoracic crop in workers, soldiers, and queens of Carebara perpusilla ants (Formicidae: Myrmicinae)(2023)
Authors: Johan Billen
- Strumigenys ants: tiny gems in the study of exocrine gland diversity(2023)
Authors: Chu Wang, Tom Wenseleers, Johan Billen
- Differences in the occurrence of leg glands between the social parasite S. mutica (Brown, 1949) and other Strumigenys ants(2023)
Authors: Chu Wang, Johan Billen
Pages: 233 - 242 - The spongiform tissue in Strumigenys ants contains exocrine glands(2023)
Authors: Chu Wang, Johan Billen
- Parthenogenetic Reproduction in Strumigenys Ants: An Update(2023)
Authors: Chu Wang, Johan Billen
- Comparative morphology and ultrastructure of the labial gland among castes of Camponotus japonicus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)(2023)
Authors: Johan Billen
- Wonderfully weird: the head anatomy of the armadillo ant, Tatuidris tatusia (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Agroecomyrmecinae), with evolutionary implications(2023)
Authors: Johan Billen
Pages: 35 - 75